Clamp



Sept. 3, 1929. c. s. ANDREWS CLAMP Filed March 21, 1927 II I lz/r i my??? m INVENTOR Char/e3 5 findrcwa ATTORNEY;

Patented Sept. 3, 1929.

UNITED STATES CHARLES S. ANDREWS, F SPERRY, OKLAHOMA.

CLAMP.

Application filed March 21, 1927. Serial No. 177,202.

My invention relates to clamps and more particularly to a device of the character for retaining the head and foot sections of a bedstead in closely assembled relation for shipment, storage or display, the principal object of the invention being to provide for quick and convenient assembly and disassembly of the bed sections in such relation with out marring the decorative surfaces of such.

In accomplishing this object I have pro vided improved details of structure, the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the head and foot sections of a bedstead connected for storage, shipment or display.

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the head and foot sections illustrating engagement of the clamp with the cross rails.

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the disassembled clamp parts. I

Referring in detail to the'drawings:

1 designates the head section, 2 the foot sec tion, and 3, 4 the angular cross rails of a metal bedstead of ordinary construction, the cross 'rails being supported by brackets 5 attached to the end posts 6, 7, of the head and foot sections by sleeves 8 which are welded or otherwise permanently secured to said posts. Connecting the cross rails 3 and 4; of the head and foot sections adjacent the posts 6, 7, are the clamping devices 9, each comprising a channel body member 10 adapted to receive the rails 3, 4 between its ends and a channel 5 keeper member 11 attached to the body member 10 by rivets 12 and of sufliciently lesser length than the body member to provide sockets 13 between the flanges 14 of the body member and the flanges 15 of the keeper member, within which the flanges 16 of the cross rails 3 and 4 are received, the flanges 15 of the keeper member 11 being shorter than the flanges 14 of the body member to avoid abutment against the narrow vertical members of the bed rails 3 and 4c. I

17 designates a complementary clamp plate, and 18 a bolt adapted for projection through an aperture 19 in the composite clamp body 1011 and through an aperture 20 in the complementary plate 17; having a head 21 engageable with the lower face of the body 1011 and a wing nut 22 for engaging the plate 17.

When a bedstead of the character described is to be assembled in collapsed condition for shipment, storage or display, the head and foot members are brought together and the clamp applied to the respective cross rails by loosening the complementary plate from the body member and turning it on its bolt so that the clamp may be applied to the cross rails of the head and foot sections from be neath with the rail flanges seated in the clamp sockets. The keeper plate is then swung over the tops of the rails and tightened throughout by screwing down the wing unit. \Vith the clamps in place the head and foot sections of the bedstead are held together for convenient shipment and storage or attractive display.

What I claim and desire to secure by Let-- ters Patent is:

In combination with head and foot cross rails of a bed having horizontal flanges and depending flanges, a clamp comprising a centrally apertured'plate adapted to overlie the horizontal flanges of said rails, and a composite body member Including a centrally apertured channel having upturned flanges at its ends and a centrally apertured keeper having less length than said channel fixed thereon and provided with upturned end flanges spaced from said flanges of the chan nel to form sockets to receive the depending flanges of t 1e rails, said keeper flanges being of less height than the rail flanges for admitting the edges of the rail to the channels for seating the same thereon, and means connecting the plate with the body including a bolt extending in the apertures of the plate and body.

In testimony whereof I my signature.

CHARLES S. ANDREWVS. 

